"That...sure was something." The blonde haired guy said. I stood up from where I had fallen on the ground and dusted the snow off my starting to get really cold.
"Yeah, I'm Sage by the way." The red haired guy said. I nod and smile.
"Im Juliet. Nice to meet you while I'm not being pulled by you or falling down on you!" I say and laugh. He smiles and it starts to dawn on me that he'll now and forever be my partner. Maybe I should've run to the girl...
"Now that we're all introducing each other. My name is Taz." The blonde guy says. He looked like a gentle person despite his attitude so far. the color of his amulet is a forest green, his symbol that he shared with the girl looks like an etched tree.
"I'm Ceira." The girl says and bows down when she introduces herself. Interesting way of introducing one self but polite I guess.
"Now that we've met and completed what we need to do. Where do we go now?" I ask nodding to the dead wolves.
"Lets uh...if we go higher up we can get a scope of the area." Sage suggest and start climbing a tree.
"Wait these trees are pretty tall..." I protest holding my hand up to stop him but the other two go ahead and start climbing too. My protesting hand droops and I sigh. Nothing to do but to join them. I pick my own tall tree and pull out my sword.
"Kya!" I fling the chain up high and it wraps around a tree branch. Taz looks at me with a raised eyebrow. I wink and jump as I retract it.
I go flying up into the air and stop retracting so I can be flung above the tree while holding onto the sword. The view I get is amazing, but there's less than a few seconds to enjoy it. I wonder what kind of joy ride this would be like...
Nows not the time to think about that. Get it together Juliet. A river runs down splitting the frozen forest. However way off in the distance there's a cliff that blocks the horizon. Thats our goal.
As I'm falling back down I swing myself around the tree to slow me down and come to a stop.
"That looked fun." Sage said laughing, it was actually. I wonder if the challenge at my beacon is anything like this? How's my bookstore doing? what if it's been robbed? But Professor Junus said something about ten years here. After that I guess my bookstore doesn't really matter.
"From here you can see the Cliff we came from. It doesn't look like it'll be easy to get there though..." Ceira says.
"Why, it might take a while but we can make it..." Taz trails off. Me and sage turn to look at what they're worried about.
My eyes widen and I take a hitched breath. Two tiny dots jump around and fight a giant figure...and that figure...has eight giant legs.
"Those two will never be able to take that out on their own..hope nobody is afraid of spiders." Sage says. Why...why?
"Time to find out I guess." I say feeling sick to my stomach.
The four of us raced across the trees. I used my chain to slingshot myself forward from each tree. The limbs of the trees seemed to move themselves to fall wherever Taz starts declining in his jump. Sage uses the flame power from his word to propel himself on each jump and Ceira runs across these platform things in the air.
When we finally got close enough we got a good view of the spider. It had many eyes and rock like legs that dance around, running here and there with the speed of lightning. It could tell when the two boys fighting it were anywhere. It could see anything and everything around it.
"Quickly!" I yell starting to freak myself out with the feeling of danger. The spider had trampled all of the trees around it, making a huge circle of branches and webs. Beneath the trees was hard snow, but also webs that could stop a hundred foot drop. If I see a thousand mini spider henchman I might throw up.
"Hey, we can help. Come on run for now!" Sage calls to the two guys. one has brown hair with an orange amulet. but the other one has but hair, a small strand of hair is tied back and flies around him. He has antlers on his head and fights with a sword like a knight. His amulet is dark blue, Matching his hair.
"We can handle it! Don't get yourself involved!" The brown topped one said. Obviously.
"Don't be an idiot!" Ceira yells to him and unravels the scroll on her back. The words seem to fly off the paper as she quickly speaks them like a prayer. "Flock to evil and spread your ink, burn the eyes don't let the blink!" She says with a nice rhyming touch. Her spell allows each of the words that came off the paper to attack one of it's many eyes. The ink sinks in and the spider screams.
I use my chain to wrap around brown top and pull him back. The blue guy follows and with brown top protesting, we retreat a ways.
"Hey hey, you can let me down now." He says. What I song him over my shoulder so he wouldn't slow me down...not my fault he was being difficult. I release him from the chain and retract it with a flick.
"The spell won't do much good for long, we need a plan to defeat it." Ceira says.
"Where did you learn to do that?" Tax ask and Ceira looks away. For a few seconds its silent.
"Look, we don't have time for that now. Did you guys spot why weaknesses whole you were fighting it?" I ask the two boys but they shake their heads.
"We should go for the legs. if we can knock him down someone otta be able to do some good." Brown top says and bite my gums. It's a good idea, but those legs didn't look like they would budge any time soon.
"You can use your chains Juliet." Sage says and I nod.
"The eyes look like a weak point, a place we can enter to kill it." Tax says and Ceira nods.
"The effect of the spell is wearing off...and I don't think this tree can hold all of our weight much longer." Ceira says. We stopped on the tip top of a tree and were all huddle together during that.
"Well...let's try it." I say half heartedly. propelling forward all at once sends a great shift through the air. I stop on a tree that hasn't been trampled and whip out my sword.
I don't agree with this. Something's not right, the eyes look too obvious. It must have some defense for those, they're too big of a weakness to be ignored...
Still I swung the chain around the leg and it wraps around and links together with itself. I drop down the tree and find on near it that's sturdier. It obviously noticed my chain around it's leg, what with so many eyes, but the others were busy distracting it.
I stabbed my sword into the tree and hold tight...alright. The chain starts retracting and the leg is dragged closer and closer to us. While the other legs try dig inside the earth to stop the whole spider from moving, this leg was inevitably being dragged towards me.
"G-guys? A little-AH!" Plenty of help, perfect! I abandoned the goal as, instead of pulling away the huge insect decided to run towards me instead. I had enough time to yank my sword out of the tree before it hit me and I was fling in the air by an angry spider leg.
My chain just dislodged and I am way to disorianted. I have no clue where the rest of the gang is but obvious not flying up with me. While stopping my sword from decapitating me I try to land safely. Yeah I can almost hear the devil laughing at my idiotic death now.
"So you'd be the type to jumo off that bridge with your friends aye?"
Yep there's the laughter. It seems everyone else is busy fighting the spider now, what to do, what to do!? Suddenly, as my lungs were removed from my soul, i was knocked sideways. My vision weeny ballistic so I decided to close my eyes and hope I don't die.
The movement stopped slosly and I too slowly opened my eyes. above me, setting me on the branch of a tree is the same wolf Faunus I spotted earlier. He has a few scratches on his face but he's alive.
"You're okay! I'm so glad I thought you had died! Thank you for helping me!" I said and stood up. he was a little tallee than me and had amazing black eyes.
"I saw you look to see if I was okay, I decided to do the same. Lucky I did huh?" He said slightly humorous lightly cold, like he was scolding me for being an idiot.
We stood there for a few seconds before my bodyjplted with realization. "Oh no the others!" I exclaim. However just as I start flinging myself back up the tree, a blood curtling scream, brown tops, rings throughout the forest. I freeze for a second and the air turns rigid.
"Nathan!" blue top screams and I make my way over to he others. The spider is trying to fix it's leg, and I have time to see brown tops dead body on the ground.
"Oh no..." Sage murmurs and Ceira cries out in horror and greif.
Blue top kneels next to his body. He closes his eyes and his hand rest on the amulet. He slowly stands up and looks toward the gigantic spider with an icy, deadly calm.
"That was my partner." He says as cooly and dangerous as his gaze. He takes a step forward as if to advance on the spider but I call out to him.
"Wait! Can't you see the things exposed stomach? Ceira, take out the eyes. Taz and Sage help Ceira but try to stop it from moving. And you." I say turning to blue top. "You and me will go for the stomach. We'll kill it that way. But be careful of the legs and just because we haven't seen any webs doesn't me a there aren't any. Everyone be careful!" i say and give a signal.
Everyone seems to be watching me and waiting for the orders. I don't lnow what happene but something did...and I won't let Nathan's death go in vain.
"Go!"
We all start moving immediately and I dash doesn't I the ground to blue top. Ceira starts the spell to blind the eyes and Sage and Taz work on the legs. Taz does something to make the winds fly all around thre spider to disorientated it.
"I can stop the legs." Blue top says and starts doing things with his hands. As if he's pulling dirt out of the ground, he slowly raises his hand. I work on edging closer to the spider and before long water spews out of the ground and freezes around the legs. Perfect!
Forgetting the sneakiness I dash under the spider and before I can thrust my sword upward my leg gets caught on something. Locked around my ankle is very tough, very sticky super spider webs. I shiver for a second but look up.
I lean back far and aim my sword. I throw it up into the middle of the spider, it's shrill scream echoes through the forest and everything stops. When the noise dies down the legs buckle and I realize I'm bout to be smushed.
I imagine the four mourning he two dead teammates they knew for only a small amount of time. Feeling grieve for a few days before they move on and bury us, me in a world I wasn't even born in.
My defiance acts up again and white dust spills from the hilt of my sword just as the spider falls. I hold up my arms in a defensive position and fall back against the earth.
hehe I hope you like this chapter and slight cliffhanger. This new world that Juliet has traveled to seems quite unforgiving, but was hers ever? In the next chapter we'll get past this part and into some new things I swear, although I can't promise it won't be a cliff hanger! Anyway hope you liked it and have a good one!